jwebb99

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by jwebb99 10y ago
Why does Google care if I resell my Pixel phone? Seriously, does anyone know?
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by jwebb99 10y ago
"Photoshop for audio," seems so obvious, I'm surprised we haven't seen this before. (After all, the underlying technology has been around for a while now.)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Is is possible to include some kind rich text/html editor that can send data back to a server via JSON? Is it possible to send any user data back to a server with Jasonette?
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> You're taking a huge risk not working for Cisco, Oracle, Google, etc...any of the players you know won't cease to exist overnight. Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. Thenagain, from what I've heard, A players don
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Upload as guest failed. The same file worked on Sodaphonic.
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Unless you are working for a discount, I don't see why an employee should be entitled to ANY equity just because they happened to show up before anyone else. The fact that you may be responsible for a large swath of a company's pr
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> design as a kludge aimed at amateurs, to the point of preferring the worse UI (all else being equal) so as to prove something. Ugh, I know exactly what you mean. It's maddening to see stereotypically uncultured nerds celebrate ugl
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Wait. What's going here? I've been reading some of the HN comments in response to this story and it seems you guys are saying that ANY codebase built on WP must be visibly released to the public. So does that mean, millions of WP
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China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams(bbc.com)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> They just never caught on in the same way as the iPhone did. It's marketing, innit. I don't think you can win against it. The iPhone is synonymous with smartphone technology because its debut was a quantum leap ahead of the
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> Facebook needs to literally grow up, removing porn is one thing but clinical images, mothers feeding their children and such should not even be up for discussion. But people are offended by seeing clinical images of nudity, mother feed
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Strange. A few days ago, I announced my bookmarking service ( http://paperbin.co ) and it was barely noticed. Yet, Shaarli has 32 votes within an hour.
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> Also, you built this on wordpress? Yep. It started as a personal blog and as I started to add features, I didn't see a reason to stop using WP.
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by jwebb99 10y ago
I was inspired by Pinboard and its business model. Over the next few weeks I hope to introduce more features for power users (like IFTTT support).
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Show HN: Paperbin – Note Taking and Bookmarking and Read Later (online, Mobi, Epub)(paperbin.co)
8 points by jwebb99 10y ago|3 comments
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> Neil deGrasse Tyson writing smug bitchy tweets about slight inaccuracies in Hollywood sci-fi movies. Are you new to the Internet? Because Tyson is hardly an outlier. I'm not familiar with Tyson's Twitter feed, but I've n
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by jwebb99 10y ago
I don't think people are necessarily hoping he will fail, rather they believe his failure is a forgone conclusion, and they can't understand why others can't see that...including Musk. NOTE: I'm not a hater or a fanboy.
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My Timeline of Failed Business Ideas(bugmuncher.com)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
I never understood why anyone preferred Genesis over SNES. The only cultural impact left by Sega was its marketing strategy. Meanwhile, Nintendo made games that still remain iconic and playable.
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Why Super Nintendo Is the Reason You’re Still Playing Video Games(rollingstone.com)
6 points by jwebb99 10y ago|2 comments
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Volkswagen’s 2019 electric car said to get 300 miles on a 15-minute charge(techcrunch.com)
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Gawker writer on his last day and Peter Thiel’s ‘vindictiveness’(cbc.ca)
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The Olympics didn’t stumble because of Millennials, but because of NBC(medium.com)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
> Stupid analogy time: Building a shiny, new house; easy. Retrofitting a 300 year old house with 1000gb ethernet wiring everywhere, while keeping the original character of the house and with minimal disruption to its inhabitants; HARD. A
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The S&P 500’s Dirty Little Secret(joshuakennon.com)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Yet, immediately after she realized she was being investigated, she immediately deleted relevant data in a way that made it impossible to recover--or words to that effect. What's more, the FBI director said that any reasonable person s
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by jwebb99 10y ago
Why? There's nothing wrong with an investigative journalism-memoir hybrid. The only reason to remove the memoir-ish aspects of her books is because some don't find the genre respectable or prestigious regardless of a book's m
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Dear Science: Why aren’t apes evolving into humans?(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by jwebb99 10y ago|1 comments
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The Sun, after the vote, explains what Brexit will mean, and readers are upset(indy100.independent.co.uk)
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by jwebb99 10y ago
I don't use Hulu, but I've read that some shows force ads regardless of price plan, e.g. The Mindy Project.

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